Michele spent 2 summers abroad landscape
painting in southern France. Upon completing her degree, she
relocated to upstate New York and taught landscape painting and
drawing in the community. Moving back to Michigan, she started a
5-year relationship with a local glass company and became enamored
with glass, learning multiple techniques and teaching the public.
After one more move to the San Francisco Bay Area, Michele worked
for an architectural glass company, assisting in transcribing art
into glass and fabricating numerous large-scale public art projects. She now
runs her own studio in Napa, working on multiple glass projects and teaching her method of art glass.
Her current direction in fine art is comprised
of a mixture of glass, paint, and metals. In her words: "Nature and
its wonders have always been a key ingredient to my work. I like to
notice the things people walk by everyday, a crack in the sidewalk
or a decaying automobile. Beauty can be found in the smallest most
insignificant things. My emotional side has always dictated the
colors and the fluidity of the brush stroke I use. Glass is a bit
harder to express one's self in a fluid manner, so painting really
helps get the ideas out immediately. As time goes on, and my life
changes with the ebbs and flows, so will my artwork."
